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1 In accordance with the July 2004 notice 

establishing an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 

to consider Licensing Support Network (LSN)- 

related matters, see 69 FR 42,218 (July 14, 2004), 

unless and until additional licensing boards or 

other presiding officers are appointed to rule on 

individual pre-license application phase issues, or 

classes of issues, relating to the LSN, all requests 

for Pre-License Application Presiding Officer 

consideration of LSN-related problems should 

continue to be submitted to that Licensing Board. 

obtain input and suggestions from 

parties and potential parties on the 

broad range of procedural matters 

expected to arise from, and associated 

case management requirements that 

could be imposed in, any adjudication 

regarding an application by the 

Department of Energy (DOE) for 

authorization to construct a high-level 

waste (HLW) repository at Yucca 

Mountain, Nevada. Following receipt of 

input and suggestions—and, to the 

extent practicable, prior to or 

contemporaneously with the tendering 

of an application for construction 

authorization by DOE for a HLW 

repository—the Advisory PAPO Board 

will submit its proposed case 

management language to the 

Commission for possible inclusion in 

the Commission’s notice of opportunity 

to request a hearing and order governing 

the hearing process regarding the DOE 

application.1

The Advisory PAPO Board is 

comprised of the following 

administrative judges: 

Thomas S. Moore, Chair, Atomic Safety 

and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Atomic Safety and 

Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

E. Roy Hawkens, Atomic Safety and 

Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

All correspondence, documents, and 

other materials shall be filed with the 

administrative judges in accordance 

with 10 CFR 2.1010(d). 

Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th 

day of February 2008. 

E. Roy Hawkens, 

Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety 

and Licensing Board Panel. 

[FR Doc. E8–3098 Filed 2–19–08; 8:45 am] 

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Interim Staff Guidance; Probabilistic 

Risk Assessment Information To 

Support Design Certification and 

Combined License Applications; 

Solicitation of Public Comment 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

ACTION: Solicitation of public comment. 

SUMMARY: The NRC is soliciting public 

comment on its Proposed Interim Staff 

Guidance COL/DC–ISG–003. This 

interim staff guidance (ISG) 

supplements the guidance provided to 

the staff in Section 19.0, ‘‘Probabilistic 

Risk Assessment and Severe Accident 

Evaluation for New Reactors,’’ of 

NUREG–0800, ‘‘Standard Review Plan 

for the Review of Safety Analysis 

Reports for Nuclear Power Plants’’

(SRP), concerning the review of 

probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) 

information and severe accident 

assessment submitted to support design 

certification (DC) and combined license 

(COL) applications. Upon receiving 

public comments, the NRC staff will 

evaluate and disposition the comments, 

as appropriate. Once the NRC staff 

completes the COL/DC–ISG, it will issue 

the same for NRC and industry use. The 

NRC staff will also incorporate the 

approved COL/DC–ISG–003 into the 

next revision of the SRP and related 

guidance documents. 

DATES: Comments must be filed no later 

than 30 days from the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. Comments received after this 

date will be considered, if it is practical 

to do so, but the Commission is able to 

ensure consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted to: Chief, Rulemaking, 

Directives, and Editing Branch, Division 

of Administrative Services, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC, 20555–

0001. 

Comments should be delivered to: 

11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland, Room T–6D59, between 7:30 

a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays. 

Persons may also provide comments via 

e-mail to Lynn Mrowca at 

lxm4@nrc.gov. The NRC maintains an 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS), which 

provides text and image files of NRC’s 

public documents. These documents 

may be accessed through the NRC’s 

Public Electronic Reading Room on the 

Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. Persons who do not 

have access to ADAMS or who 

encounter problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS should 

contact the NRC Public Document Room 

(PDR) reference staff at 1–800–397–

4209, 301–415–4737, or by e-mail at 

pdr@nrc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Lynn Mrowca, Chief, PRA Licensing, 

Operations Support & Maintenance 

Branch 1, Division of Safety Systems 

and Risk Assessment, Office of the New 

Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC, 20555–

0001; telephone 301–415–0525 or e-mail 

at lxm4@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

agency also posts its issued staff 

guidance in the agency external Web 

page (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

doc-collections/isg/). 

The NRC staff is issuing this notice to 

solicit public comments on the 

proposed COL/DC–ISG–003. After the 

NRC staff considers any public 

comments, it will make a determination 

regarding the proposed COL/DC–ISG–

003. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day 

of February 2008. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

William D. Reckley, 

Branch Chief, Rulemaking, Guidance and 

Advanced Reactors Branch, Division of New 

Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors. 

[FR Doc. E8–3095 Filed 2–19–08; 8:45 am] 

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Sunshine Federal Register Notice 

DATE: Weeks of February 18, 25, March 

3, 10, 17, 24, 2008. 

PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Public and Closed. 

Matters to be Considered: 

Week of February 18, 2008 

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 

10:30 a.m. Meeting with the National 

Academies Radiation Source Use and 

Replacement Study Committee 

(Closed—Ex. 1). 

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 

9:30 a.m. Periodic Meeting on New 

Reactor Issues, Part 1 (Public Meeting) 

(Contact: Donna Williams, 301–415–

1322). 

This meeting will be Web cast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 


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1:25 p.m. Affirmation Session (Public 

Meeting) (Tentative). a. Final Rule—

10 CFR Part 73 ‘‘Safeguards 

Information Protection Requirements’’

(RIN 3150–AH57) (Tentative). 

This meeting will be Web cast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

1:30 p.m. Periodic Meeting on New 

Reactor Issues, Part 2 (Public Meeting) 

(Contact: Donna Williams, 301–415–

1322). 

This meeting will be Web cast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

Week of February 25, 2008—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the Week of February 25, 2008. 

Week of March 3, 2008—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the Week of March 3, 2008. 

Week of March 10, 2008—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the Week of March 10, 2008. 

Week of March 17, 2008—Tentative 

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 

9:30 a.m. Briefing by Independent 

External Panel to Identify 

Vulnerabilities in the U.S. NRC’s 

Materials Licensing Program (Public 

Meeting) (Contact: Aaron T. McCraw, 

301–415–1277). 

This meeting will be Web cast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

Week of March 24, 2008—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the Week of March 24, 2008. 

* * * * * 

* The schedule for Commission 

meetings is subject to change on short 

notice. To verify the status of meetings, 

call (recording)—(301) 415–1292. 

Contact person for more information: 

Michelle Schroll, (301) 415–1662. 

* * * * * 

Additional Information 

The Discussion of Security Issues 

(Closed—Ex. 1) scheduled for Monday, 

February 11, 2008, was cancelled. 

* * * * * 

The NRC Commission Meeting 

Schedule can be found on the Internet 

at: http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/policymaking/schedule.html. 

* * * * * 

The NRC provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you 

need a reasonable accommodation to 

participate in these public meetings, or 

need this meeting notice or the 

transcript or other information from the 

public meetings in another format (e.g. 

braille, large print), please notify the 

NRC’s Disability Program Coordinator, 

Rohn Brown, at 301–492–2279, TDD: 

301–415–2100, or by e-mail at 

REB3@nrc.gov. Determinations on 

requests for reasonable accommodation 

will be made on a case-by-case basis. 

* * * * * 

This notice is distributed by mail to 

several hundred subscribers; if you no 

longer wish to receive it, or would like 

to be added to the distribution, please 

contact the Office of the Secretary, 

Washington, DC 20555 (301–415–1969). 

In addition, distribution of this meeting 

notice over the Internet system is 

available. If you are interested in 

receiving this Commission meeting 

schedule electronically, please send an 

electronic message to dkw@nrc.gov. 

Dated: February 14, 2008. 

R. Michelle Schroll, 

Office of the Secretary. 

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In the Matter of Mr. Juan Blanco; Order 

Prohibiting Involvement in NRCLicensed Activities (Effective 

Immediately) 

I 

Mr. Juan Blanco was employed as a 

security officer by The Wackenhut 

Corporation, which provided security 

services at Florida Power & Light 

Company’s Turkey Point Nuclear Plant 

(Licensee) during April 2005 through 

February 2006. Licensee is the holder of 

License No. DPR–31 and DPR–41, 

issued by the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC or Commission) on 

July 19, 1972, and April 10, 1973, 

respectively, pursuant to 10 CFR Part 

50. The license authorizes the operation 

of Turkey Point Nuclear Plant (facility) 

in accordance with the conditions 

specified therein. The facility is located 

on the Licensee’s site in Florida City, 

Florida. 

II 

On February 16, 2006, the NRC 

initiated an Augmented Inspection 

Team on-site inspection to review 

security-related matters at the facility. 

Subsequently, an investigation was 

initiated by the NRC’s Office of 

Investigations (OI) during February 

2006, in response to concerns identified 

by the NRC during the on-site 

inspection. During the inspection and 

investigation in February 2006, Mr. Juan 

Blanco admitted during an NRC Office 

of Investigations (OI) interview that 

during a previous interview with OI in 

April 2005, he provided a statement that 

was not complete and accurate. 

Specifically, Mr. Blanco stated to OI in 

April 2005 that he had no knowledge of 

an incident involving the removal of 

two firing pins from contingency 

response weapons. However, in a 

February 2006 interview with OI, Mr. 

Juan Blanco admitted that he was 

shown the firing pins after the pins were 

removed from the weapon by the 

security officer who removed the pins. 

In addition, Mr. Blanco failed to report 

information to FPL or Wackenhut that 

was adverse to the safety and security of 

the facility, as required by the FPL 

Behavior Observation Program. 

Specifically, Mr. Blanco failed to report 

that firing pins had been removed from 

contingency weapons that were 

considered serviceable by FPL. 

As a result, Mr. Juan Blanco’s actions 

were determined to be in violation of 10 

CFR 50.5(a)(2), which states, in part, 

that an employee of a contractor may 

not deliberately submit to the NRC, a 

licensee, or a licensee’s contractor, 

information that the person submitting 

the information knows to be incomplete 

or inaccurate in some respect material to 

the NRC. 

III 

Based on the above, the NRC 

concluded that Mr. Juan Blanco, a 

former employee of The Wackenhut 

Corporation, has engaged in deliberate 

misconduct in violation of 10 CFR 

50.5(a)(2). The NRC must be able to rely 

on the Licensee, its contractors, and its 

employees to comply with NRC 

requirements. Mr. Juan Blanco’s 

deliberate action in violation of 10 CFR 

50.5(a)(2), has raised serious doubt as to 

whether he can be relied upon to 

comply with NRC requirements. 

Consequently, I lack the requisite 

reasonable assurance that licensed 

activities can be conducted in 

compliance with the Commission’s 

requirements and that the health and 

safety of the public will be protected, 

and that common defense and security 

will be achieved if Mr. Juan Blanco were 

permitted at this time to be involved in 

NRC-licensed activities. Therefore, the 

public health, safety and interest require 

that Mr. Blanco be prohibited from any 

involvement in NRC-licensed activities 

for a period of three years from the date 

of this Order. Additionally, Mr. Juan 

Blanco is required to notify the NRC of 

his first employment in NRC-licensed 

activities for a period of one year 

following the prohibition period. 

Furthermore, pursuant to 10 CFR 2.202, 


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